Authoritatively Quotes

#1. It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.

Meryl Streep

#2. I have to admit that talking authoritatively about my students' stories can make me feel, at times, like an astronaut who has just landed on a new planet and insists on giving guided tours to its inhabitants.

Etgar Keret

#3. Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what someone else believes.

Elbert Hubbard

#4. Yes, but - " I began. "So" - he said authoritatively, holding up a finger to hush me - "if you have been deprived of your earlier life, perhaps it is only that God has seen fit to bless you with another, that may be richer and fuller.

Diana Gabaldon

#5. Since these are themselves "scriptural" statements, that means that scripture itself points - authoritatively, if it does indeed possess authority! - away from itself and to the fact that final and true authority belongs to God himself, now delegated to Jesus Christ.

N. T. Wright

#6. Propriety is that perfection of style which comes when a work is authoritatively constructed on approved principles. It arises from prescription, from usage, or from nature.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#7. Solving Problems with NMR Spectroscopy is a very welcome addition to the existing literature. It fulfills a real need for an up-to-date and authoritatively written introduction for students and practitioners of NMR.

Richard Ernst

#8. Monopolizing the right to speak authoritatively about "security" in name of everyone - the ability to evoke the "national interest" or a universal "we" - is at the crux of the practice of power.

Gearoid O Tuathail

#9. Young gentlemen whose whiskers have not yet developed are authoritatively deciding that nothing can be decided, and dogmatically denouncing all dogmas. We meet them every day, and we notice that in proportion to their ignorance is their confidence in sneering at every holy thing.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#10. Our chief marketable skill, coming out of college, is the ability to write authoritatively about things we don't necessarily understand.

Dave Barry

#11. Drawing is the art of being able to leave an accurate record of
the experience of what one isn't, of what one doesn't know. A
great drawer is either confirming beautifully what is commonplace
or probing authoritatively the unknown.
::: Brett Whiteley :::

Brett Whiteley

#12. Like Lenin Comrade Stalin is a leader of a higher type. He is a mountain eagle, without fear in the fight, who boldly leads the bolshevik party on unexplored roads toward the total victory of Communism.

Anastas Mikoyan

#13. I laugh, but Ash stops me with a kiss. His arms wrap around me and lift me slightly off the ground. I'm lost in him, the feel of his lips, the taste of his spearmint gum. When he lowers me to the ground again, I'm lightheaded. "So,

Ashelyn Drake

#14. I remain myself. I have never cared about others misjudging me

Cao Cao

#15. Happiness is when you are not striving for it!

Anuranjita Kumar

#16. Children with cancer, as one surgeon noted, were typically "tucked in the farthest recesses of the hospital wards." They were on their deathbeds anyway, the pediatricians argued; wouldn't it be kinder and gentler, some insisted, to just "let them die in peace"?

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#17. Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

Christopher Hitchens

#18. The Fey did nothing in half measures. That intensity of emotion was part of their appeal. It made them the fiercest warriors, the staunchest allies, the most passionate lovers. The most devoted mates.

C.L. Wilson

#19. How can you expect me to believe that?""whether you believe it or not does not change the nature of truth

P.C. Cast

#20. The cross does not give us a minor shift or two with regard to a few of our ethical and moral and religious values. The cross radically disrupts the very center and citadel of your life from self to Christ. And if the cross has not done that, you're not a Christian!

Albert Martin

#21. The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.

Paul Cezanne

#22. I hate having an audience.

Veronica Roth

#23. Woman! woman! What a disturbing element you are in the universe - man's universe!

Marah Ellis Ryan

#24. Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society ... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.

Stephen Harper